256 REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 
in Hungary is estimated to have yielded this year about 
16,912,500 quarters, as compared with 17,623,000 quarters last 
year. The estimated yields of the other principal cereals are 
as follows:—Rye, 4,776,000 quarters, against 5,500,000 
quarters in 1899; barley, 6,396,500 quarters, against 7,375,500 
quarters; and oats 7,319,000 quarters against 8,306,000 
quarters. The grain harvest of 1900 appears, therefore, to 
have been generally inferior to that of last year. 
Potatoes were reported to be in good condition, and sugar- 
beet and other roots were also satisfactory. 

CROPS IN ITALY. 
The official reports published by the Ministry of Agricul- 
ture in the Rzvesta Meteorico Agraria state that the results of 
the wheat harvest in Italy ave shown the crop to be fairly 
good in quality, but somewhat deficient in yield. Other 
cereals were, however, generally satisfactory. Maize suffered 
from want of rain in July, but the prospects for this grain in 
August were on the whole favourable. In the northern and 
central districts the yield promised to be only an average one, 
but the quality was good, and in the south the crop was more 
satisfactory. 
Vines promised an average yield of grapes except in some 
of the southern provinces and Sardinia, where much injury 
had been done by /eronospora ; olives, on the other hand, were 
generally satisfactory. Potatoes, tomatoes, and vegetables 
had not done well. 
CROPS IN MANITOBA. 
The bulletin issued by the Manitoban Ministry of Agri- 
culture on August 6th last gives the estimated area and yield 
of the principal crops in the current year. The area sown 
with wheat was estimated at 1,806,215 acres, but of this no less 
than 348,819 acres are considered to have been rendered 
